The Soulquarians is a group of musicians from throughout the US who recorded music together from the mid 90's til the early 2000's. Individuals in this group have come to define genre and many now have tremendous following and are very successful. This group consisted of J Dilla, Questlove, James Poyser, Bilal, Q-Tip,D'Angelo, Jeff Lee & Pino Palladino. Many of the members had are an Aquarius on the Greek Zodiac or had Birthdays near that time, the term Soulquarian also represents a love, appreciation & understanding of soul music and related genres.

Erykah Badu, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Raphael Siddiq & Common all rolled with the Soulquarian click. The music came fast and strong. D'Angelo's 'Voodoo' is a definition of the Soulquarian sound, with Jaydee, Questlove, Posyer and a host of other musicians killing it off.

Other Soulquarian work includes Common's 'Like Water For Chocolate' as well as Erykah Badu's 'Mamas Gun'. All these albums have gone gold or platinum.

If you want to hear some incredibly dope Soulquarian ish you need to check out Queslove's Swift FM account, where he posts up songs, and some of the tracks are some ridiculous archive, rare gem, soulquarian, dilla, crazy ish. Here is the link:http://www.swift.fm/questlove/

Wow it seems very strange that I'm putting these photos up and there is the possibility that Plastic People might close.It can't close. Or if it does, build a better club with an even better soundsystem somewhere else. HELP KEEP PLASTIC PEOPLE ALIVE

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

This young lady's voice most certainly does it for me. The combo of her voice over some funk/space beats gets me through the day. Download these tracks from the Spine TV Blog, for a little musical astral here: http://www.spinetv.net/blog/2010/Jan/22/ahu/

Sam Shepherd, AKA Floating Points - Love Me Like This , i don't know what type of music this is. To me it sounds like some house, new electro, synth, dub space ish. Lets do away with genre and categorization and appreciate good music for what it is. This sh*t right here is the future. I can't wait to see what comes next.